The 2018 Newport Folk Festival is in the books. There were numerous highlights – new discoveries along with some revered favorites. While there, I spoke with a several artists backstage to get their thoughts on playing the iconic festival. All […]
Have you seen dignity? These days, we know where not to look for it. But it was there, so very much there, at the filled-to-capacity Beacon Theater, on March 15th, for the second annual Love Rocks NYC to benefit God’s […]
They carried peace flags with doves skimming pale blue skies and huge American flags. There was a sea of tie-dye reaching across a sunny horizon and the smoky dust of lit reefers spreading an aroma I’d not smelled so prevalently […]
Part Three (of four parts) Lockn’ Festival: LOCKN’ Festival celebrates its fifth year in 2017. Located in Central Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the festival site is halfway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. According to their website, “We’re a group of dedicated […]
PART TWO (of four parts) The Lockn’ 2017 Talent Magazine, Inclusive, A survey of American hot music, Lockn’-Style: Delivering the Goods to the Soul: The bands and performers of Lockn’, my snapshots, interiors of the soul, mapping by angels, a […]
PART ONE (of four parts) Lockn’ Festival: LOCKN’ Festival celebrates its fifth year in 2017. Located in Central Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the festival site is halfway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. According to their website, “We’re a group of dedicated […]
Admittedly, it’s not always easy keeping up with Grammy-winning guitarist Warren Haynes. A musician with a seemingly insatiable muse, he divides his time between his longstanding commitment to his band Gov’t Mule, his solo projects, and his family, with primary […]
As I write this week’s article, it’s one day after Record Store Day. Designed to promote independent record stores, Record Store Day has also morphed into another front in the battle for artists to entice consumers to continue to consume […]
This week it’s the McDowell Mountain Music Festival from Phoenix, Arizona. And if it’s Arizona, longtime ND readers will know right off the bat that C. Elliott will be there to share her photos with us. Now in its 14th year, the […]
An Appreciation of Six Nights at New York’s Beacon Theater, Sept. 30th – Oct. 8th, 2016 Hey, friends! The degenerative state of our American political discourse got you down? Feeling sort of humiliated in the eyes of the world? Worried that […]
